Blunt-Kinder Administration Books Scientology Museum for State Capitol

Submitted by Jefferson Thomas on Fri, 12/29/2006 - 9:11am.

The Blunt-Kinder Administration has booked a Church of Scientology traveling museum into the State Capitol Building for January 18th and 19th.  The museum, called "Psychiatry: An Industry of Death", will set up shop next to the venerable Missouri State Museum on the Capitol's first floor.

The "museum" makes a number of startling statements in its exhibits.  Among them:

-Psychiatrists follow a long-standing "master plan" for world domination.

-Psychiatrists are responsible for creating suicide bombers and were behind the September 11, 2001 attacks ("Suicide bombers are ... assassins manufactured through drugs and psycho-political methods. Careful psychiatric indoctrination and treatment can make the most barbaric act rational.")

No word on how the exhibit fits into the Blunt Administration's efforts at "organizational change" at the Department of Mental Health.

 

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Is anyone organizing a protest

Submitted by bipolargemini on Mon, 01/01/2007 - 11:16pm.

Is anyone organizing a protest for this?  Or perhaps some kind of letter writing campaign?

As a person with a severe mental illness who has been helped greatly by the field of psychiatry (and also a person who has been greatly affected by the cuts in Medicaid made by Governor Blunt), this public display of disinformation disgusts me.  It literally makes me sick to my stomach.  I cannot believe someone would want to invite the scientology cult to our beloved State Capitol building to desecrate it so.

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Controlling the Psychos

Submitted by Ignited on Mon, 01/01/2007 - 5:59pm.

It will be interesting to see if the Blunt administration monitors this psycho display to ensure there is no violation of CSR 35-1.050 (A) 5 and 6 which prohibit certain activities at the Capitol, including:

  1. Commercial activities, including the sale of any goods or services and any other activities undertaken for the primary purpose of obtaining a financial return for the benefit of an individual or organization, whether organized for profit or not, except as other-wise authorized in this rule;
  2. The solicitation of contributions, gifts or donations is prohibited in all common areas of the Capitol Building, and the distribution of leaflets or other materials and all other forms of solicitation, including solicitation of support for any political candidate or cause is prohibited in all common areas of the Capitol Building except the rotunda and the south steps.
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Photos from the Upcoming State Capitol Exhibit

Submitted by Cole on Fri, 12/29/2006 - 11:41am.

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Something that intrigues me about the picture...

Submitted by Hinnus_Asinus on Fri, 12/29/2006 - 12:08pm.

Looking at the right hand picture, that panel reads "Eugenics and the Holocaust." Now just what the hell does Eugenics have to do with psychiatry? (I am also secretly chuckling inside because I doubt there is any mention of "Kirksville's dirty little secret" in there. Hitler got his ideas mostly from research done at the Eugenics Records Office in the US and one of their grand poobahs was Harry Laughlin, of Kirksville. Laughlin got an honorary doctorate from the medical school in Heidelberg for his accomplishments in "race science". He was the driving force behind the clamping down of immigration in 1924 (testified before Congress boucoup times) and was instrumental in a forced sterilization case (Buck vs. Bell) that went all the way to the Supremes, causing Oliver Wendell Holmes to say one of the few stupid things he's ever been quoted over "Three generations of imbeciles are enough.")

Now just how in hell are the devotees of L. Ron Hubbard rolling this all together? And where are the religious fundies when you actually NEED them to run this pile of horse biscuits out of the Capitol?

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Running backwards

Submitted by popsuscg on Fri, 12/29/2006 - 11:11am.

 Oh my gosh, thats all we need, something that helps to reinforce misconceptions of mental health care.

 The Military Times newspapers this week have been reporting on the rampant cases of PTSD in the ranks of Iraq war vets and the military health systems inability to keep up with it.

 It looks like the Republicans are looking for an excuse to handle the causalties of war on the cheap, just like they tried to fight the war!

 What's the real shame is that none of us are suprised!

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What a poke in the eye for modern medicine

Submitted by grolaw on Fri, 12/29/2006 - 11:07am.
Mental health was just a target for L. Ron Hubbard - especially where he sold immense amounts of BS to people willing to adopt magical thinking as a "Religion" It is interesting to note that L. Ron had published a short story about how to make a fortune by starting your own religion just prior to founding HIS new religion Dianetics followed by Scientology.



Go see for yourself what a load of crap Scientology is, at: http://www.xenu.net
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Looking at the Facilities schedule link.

Submitted by TeresaJ on Sun, 12/30/2007 - 10:20pm.

On the 18th, there is something by the Pro-Life Committee called "Rosary at the Rotunda." I know full well there are a number of Catholic churches, and the cathedral for the Jeff City diocese up there. Why do they need to pray under the Capitol dome? 

Bead-saying Catholics and then Scientologists  within two days. (Hey, there are lots of pro-life denominations, but only one which says rosaries which I am aware of.)  What goes here with the theory of separation of church and state?
 

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